In recent times in Blog articles on Record Press, we have been trying to identify the location of former Radio 1 disc jockeys from the 1970s and 1980s. Most of them have been tracked down to secure institutions like Radio 2 and Smooth Radio, where they are held under strict security, so that they are no longer a threat and menace to society!!

For decades prior to their incarceration, the contrived wackiness and madcap escapades and antics of the likes of Tony Blackburn, David Hamilton, Jimmy Saville and Gary Davies threatened the very fabric of our society; as these miscreants were allowed to run amok unchecked by the BBC!! However they have all been under lock and key for at least the last decade – all bar one!! Until recently there was one notable “convict of cheese” and “corny, flakey fugitive” still on the run, but thankfully he has now been located. This convict operates under various aliases and pseudonyms in his attempt to avoid capture by the Taste Police – DLT, aka Hairy Cornflake or just plain Mr Dave Lee Travis has been spotted in the Burmese Jungle, when it was revealed recently that he was the favourite listening choice of Burmese pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi during her 15 years of house arrest.

In an interview with the Radio Times, Miss Suu Kyi said that the former Radio 1 DJ’s World Service programme, A Jolly Good Show “made her world ‘much more complete’ during the long years of confinement”. Well there is no accounting for taste, but I guess if you are imprisoned, your choices are fairly limited!! Apparently Miss Suu Kyi, 66, found much comfort in DLT’s friendly and cheerful request show, which linked up families and friends from all over the globe. Clearly she had been totally brainwashed by either her Burmese captors, or worse Dave Lee Travis!!

The good news for all those Radio 1 listeners traumatised for 20 years by Dave Lee Travis’ inane ramblings, bloated ego, self regarding pomposity and innate arrogance, is that in effect he too is now under house arrest!! Although still allowed to broadcast for Magic Radio to pockets of the UK, he now broadcasts each weekend from the confines of his home studio in Berkshire. Many will be relieved to know that he can no longer inflict further damage on a national scale – there is a restraining order and injunction preventing him from going within a mile of any national radio or TV station!!

So the good news is that there is no immediate danger of the majority of radio listeners being subjected to “The Hairy Cornflake”, “Snooker on the Radio” or similar banal quizzes. Or indeed the contrived drivel, buffoonery and wackiness epitomised by Dave Lee Travis’ 1976 single, Convoy GB, which he recorded with fellow Radio 1 DJ Paul Burnett, under the name Laurie Lingo and the Dipsticks. That rather neatly brings me on to Paul Burnett – now there was a disc jockey with an above average intelligence, and a very smart, dry wit. Does anybody know of his whereabouts, because he would be worth locating and installing back on national radio!!